"That
in whom reside all beings and who resides in all beings, who is the giver of
grace to all, the Supreme Soul of the universe, the limitless being -- I am
that." - Amritbindu Upanishad

"That which permeates all, which nothing transcends and which, like
the universal space around us, fills everything completely from within and without,
that Supreme non-dual Brahman -- that thou art." - Sankaracharya

"The seeker is he who is in search of himself. Give up all questions
except one: "Who am I?" After all, the only fact you are sure of is that you
are. The "I am" is certain. The "I am this" is not. Struggle to find out what
you are in reality. To know what you are, you must first investigate and know
what you are not. Discover all that you are not -- body, feelings thoughts,
time, space, this or that -- nothing, concrete or abstract, which you perceive
can be you. The very act of perceiving shows that you are not what you perceive.
The clearer you understand on the level of mind you can be described in negative
terms only, the quicker will you come to the end of your search and realise
that you are the limitless being". - Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Table of Contents

Foreword
Who is Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj?
Translators Note
Editors Note
1. The Sense of "I am"
2. Obsession with the body
3. The Living Present
4. Real World is Beyond the Mind
5. What is Born must Die
6. Meditation
7. The Mind
8. The Self Stands Beyond Mind
9. Responses of Memory
10. Witnessing
11. Awareness and Consciousness
12. The Person is not Reality
13. The Supreme, the Mind and the Body
14. Appearances and the Reality
15. The Jnani
16. Desirelessness, the Highest Bliss
17. The Ever-Present
18. To Know What you Are, Find What you Are Not
19. Reality lies in Objectivity
20. The Supreme is Beyond All
21. Who am I?
22. Life is Love and Love is Life
23. Discrimination leads to Detachment
24. God is the All-doer, the Jnani a Non-doer
25. Hold on to "I am"
26. Personality, an Obstacle
27. The Beginningless Begins Forever
28. All Suffering is Born of Desire
29. Living is Life"s only Purpose
30. You are Free NOW
31. Do not Undervalue Attention
32. Life is the Supreme Guru
33. Everything Happens by Itself
34. Mind is restlessness Itself
35. Greatest Guru is Your Inner Self
36. Killing Hurts the Killer, not the Killed
37. Beyond Pain and Pleasure there is Bliss
38. Spiritual Practice is Will Asserted and Re-asserted
39. By Itself Nothing has Existence
40. Only the Self is Real
41. Develop the Witness Attitude
42. Reality can not be Expressed
43. Ignorance can be Recognised, not Jnana
44. 'I am' is True, all else is Inference
45. What Comes and Goes has no Being
46. Awareness of Being is Bliss
47. Watch Your Mind
48. Awareness is Free
49. Mind Causes Insecurity
50. Self-awareness is the Witness
51. Be Indifferent to Pain and Pleasure
52. Being Happy, Making Happy is the Rhythm of Life
53. Desires Fulfilled, Breed More Desires
54. Body and Mind are Symptoms of Ignorance
55. Give up All and You Gain All
56. Consciousness Arising, World Arises
57. Beyond Mind there is no Suffering
58. Perfection, Destiny of All
59. Desire and Fear: Self-centred States
60. Live Facts, not Fancies
61. Matter is Consciousness Itself
62. In the Supreme the Witness Appears
63. Notion of Doership is Bondage
64. Whatever pleases you, Keeps you Back
65. A Quiet Mind is All You Need
66. All Search for Happiness is Misery
67. Experience is not the Real Thing
68. Seek the Source of Consciousness
69. Transiency is Proof of Unreality
70. God is the End of All Desire and Knowledge
71. In Self-awareness you Learn about Yourself
72. What is Pure, Unalloyed, Unattached is Real
73. Death of the Mind is Birth of Wisdom
74. Truth is Here and Now
75. In Peace and Silence you Grow
76. To Know that You do not Know, is True Knowledge
77. 'I' and 'Mine' are False Ideas
78. All Knowledge is Ignorance
79. Person, Witness and the Supreme
80. Awareness
81. Root Cause of Fear
82. Absolute Perfection is Here and Now
83. The True Guru
84. Your Goal is Your Guru
85. "I am": The Foundation of all Experience
86. The Unknown is the Home of the Real
87. Keep the Mind Silent and You shall Discover
88. Knowledge by the Mind, is not True Knowledge
89. Progress in Spiritual Life
90. Surrender to Your Own Self
91. Pleasure and Happiness
92. Go Beyond the l-am-the-body Idea
93. Man is not the Doer
94. You are Beyond Space and Time
95. Accept Life as it Comes
96. Abandon Memories and Expectations
97. Mind and the World are not Separate
98. Freedom from Self-identification
99. The Perceived can not be the Perceiver
100. Understanding leads to Freedom
101. Jnani does not Grasp, nor Hold
Appendix-1: Who is Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Appendix-2: Navnath Sampradaya